{"id":44287,"date":"2015-11-28T00:16:47","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T00:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44287"},"modified":"2016-10-22T19:59:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T19:59:30","slug":"my-white-father-and-black-mother-both-encouraged-me-to-be-black-to-embrace-black-both-as-a-label-and-as-a-way-of-being-part-of-the-world-to-claim-the-black-community-as-my-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44287","title":{"rendered":"My white father and Black mother both encouraged me to be Black, to embrace Black, both as a label and as a way of being part of the world. To claim the Black community as my own."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>My white father and Black mother both encouraged me to be Black, to embrace Black, both as a label and as a way of being part of the world. To claim the Black community as my own. To them this was an act of resistance against a society that would devalue Black people and Blackness as a concept. But it was also an act of love for me, a gift to be part of this incredible community that fuels phenomenal intellectual and artistic culture all over the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IBJIYONGI\" target=\"_blank\">Chanda Prescod-Weinstein<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43407\" target=\"_blank\">Hold Fast to Blackness<\/a>,\u201d <em>Medium<\/em>, July 29, 2015. <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@chanda\/hold-fast-to-blackness-3e4fa529917d\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/medium.com\/@chanda\/hold-fast-to-blackness-3e4fa529917d<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My white father and Black mother both encouraged me to be Black, to embrace Black, both as a label and as a way of being part of the world. To claim the Black community as my own. To them this was an act of resistance against a society that would devalue Black people and Blackness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[21524,18537],"class_list":["post-44287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-chanda-prescod-weinstein","tag-medium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44288,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44287\/revisions\/44288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}